The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-03-26
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

on the IIth. -Four men were burned, two
of them, it is believed, fatally. Their
names are Jacob and Stephen Snyder,
William Bloom and Will am Theman.
THE case Of Oscar Cook, who got him
self into hot water by helping Wittrock to
dispose of the Doodle after the Frisco
train robbery, was called in the Criminal
Court at Independence, Mo-, on the nth
Cook pleaded guilty to one count in the
indictment, and was sentenced to three
years in the penitentiary
WALTER L. LAwToS, New York mer-
chant, has run away, after defrauding va
rious people to the amount altogether of
about 81, 100000. His effects have been at
tached.
GENEVA SToNER, aged seventeen years.
committed suicide at Lancaster, Pa, on
the nth, by taking a dose of rat poison.
She gave as a reason for the act that her
mother would not allow her to go out at
night.
THE funeral of Lieutenant Powell, of the
signal corps, took place from his late resi-
dence in Washington on the 10Th The in
terment was made in Glenwood cemetery.
A number of signal-servlce men attended
the funeral.
been awarded the prize competition of
artists and architects all over the world
for a monument to the City of Mexico, to
commemorate the war in which Mexico
became an independent nation. 1t is TO be
Of Mexican marbles and bronze TO cost
100000
MRS HoYT, the Presidents sister, is
guest at the White House in Washington.
THE Commissioner of Internal Revenue,
in reply to an official inquiry from the
Commissioner of Agriculture, states that
the quantity of artificial butter manufact-
ured and removed for consumption or sale
during the months of November, Deem
Der and January was as follows: Novem-
Der, A. 742, 500 pounds; December 2,7SG, 27S
pounds; January, 2,5)l, ia pounds. Total
l0029O61 pounds.
BUFFALO BILL has been made a
Colonel of Nebraska militia.
THE Irish police have at last succeeded
in arresting Father Keleher
IT is stated at Washington that cx-
Representative Benton j. Hall, Of Iowa
has been decided upon as the successor
to Mr.. Montgomery as Commissioner Of
Patents.
Mrs. ADELE GRATIoT- WAsHBURNE, wife
of the Hon. E. B. Washburne, ex-Minister
to France, died in Chicago on the 18th.
M. DE LEssEPs says he don't care what
the Partisan press say about his recent ut
terances at Berlin; that he still sticks to
them.
AN appalling hotel horror occurred on
the 18th at Buffalo, N. Y, in the burning
of the new Ric hmond House. A number
Of human lives were lost and great
many people were injured.
A MAN who, from papers found in his
pocket was undoubtedly Patrick H.
Dolan, clerk, fell in front of an engine
at the Ninth street New York; station of
the Third Avenue Elevated road on the
| 18th, and was instantly killed.
THE Russian Press is raising large cash
contributions from public subscriptions
for the families of the insurgents recently
executed in Bulgaria.
THE second trial of Michael Kaelin, al
Louisville, KY, for the murder of his
wife on August Z, 1885, resulted on the
18th in his being sentenced to the peniten
tiary for life. Upon his first trial he was
sentenced to hang.
The weekly report of the Commissioner
of Pensions shows that during the weel
ending March II there were received a
his office 6,355 applications for pensions
| ., 154 cases were disposed of during the
week, leaving total of SOC, 2S6 cases pend
ing.
The Political Correspondence says tht
Turkish Government has warned the Bul
garian Government of a projected rebel
ious movement from Roumelia, unde
Captain Nabokoff, with band of armed
Montenegrins.
The bodies of two unknown tramp,
were discovered in the hot air fiue of tn
Isabella furnace at Pittsburgh on tn
18th. The men had evidently crawlet
into the tiue or tunnel to escape from tn,
cold last night, and had been suffocatet
by the coke gas while sleeping. There
was nothing about them which woult
furnish clew to their identity
A MOVEMENT is on foot in Cairo to secur
the release of Zobehr Pasha, Transporter
in 1885 for alleged treason, and since
State prisoner at Gibraltar
A SAD death by suicide occurred il
Grant township, Adams County, fou
miles north of LenoX, Ia, on the 18th
George Douglass, well-known farmer
fOrty-seven years of age, shot and kille
himself with revolver near his house
No cause can be assigned, unless it b
long continued Ill-health He leaves
wife and large family.
AT six o'clock on the morning of tn
18th the distillery of Dorset & Wulftang
in Covington, Nv, was burned 10 tn
ground. Loss, $4,000 One man, Be
Rucer, was fatally injured.
AT one o'clock on the morning of tn
18th John Doty was crossing the Pol
street viaduct in Chicago, when he wa
assaulted by two men, who struck him o
the head with club, knocking him down
After rifling his pockets the thugs flee
leaving no clew to their identity. Dot
was conveyed to the County Hospita
where it was found that his skull wa
fractured.
Tue British ship Eliza A. Kenney, Cal
tain Lawrence, from Philadelphia, vi
New York for Bremen, has been abal
doned at sea in a sinking condition. III
crew were saved.
STEAMERS arriving at New York an
other Atlantic ports report passing larg
numbers of icebergs and immense field